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2018 Shakespeare Competition Winner

Congratulations to the 2018 ESU New Orleans Branch Shakespeare Winner, Rohan Padmakumar, from Lusher Charter High School and his teacher, Beau Bratcher. Good luck at the National Competition in New York City!

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Gary Mendoza 2016 BUSS Scholar

Gary Mendoza, who also mentors students to compete in the annual Shakespeare Competition, will head to London for the program this summer thanks in part to the English Speaking Union of the United States [ESUUS], which provided the New Orleans chapter scholarship. Read more here.

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New Orleans Branch Shakespeare Competition

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If you couldn't join us - you missed a great Shakespeare Competition! We had 8 contestants from all over southeast Louisiana compete, followed by a wonderful reception at Branch Patron, Katherine de Montluzin's beautiful home.

Congratulations to our winner, senior, Rohan Padmakumar, from Lusher Charter High School here in New Orleans! As our ESU Branch winner, he receives an all-expenses paid trip to New York City to compete in the National Shakespeare Competition on May 1st. See more pictures here!

Evelyn Wrench Speaker Program Region VII, 2016-2017

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ADRIAN TINNISWOOD, OBEDistinguished British historian and author

The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939

Drawing on thousands of memoirs, unpublished letters and diaries, and the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls and bibulous butlers, historian Adrian Tinniswood brings the stately homes of England to life as never before, opening the door onto a world half-remembered, glamorous, shameful at times, and forever wrapped in myth.